Fine Chinese Export Armorial Plate, Late 18th Century.
This excellent octagonal piece has a coat of arms that where the Latin motto translates roughly as "Through Many Difficulties". Intended to be the same as those on a service made about five years earlier for Captain William Smith, who married Sarah Cazalet. The service could have been for his brother in 1792-1794. The arms are of Smith possibly aligning with a French family, c. 1798.

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